Mel Trotter, who founded 66 rescue missions in key cities across the U.S., wrote: “I didn’t get a very good start in the first place; my job was tending bar in my father’s saloon. Booze got the best of me pretty early in life, and before I was twenty years old I was the common […]
“Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you” (Mt 17:20). Burma’s intrepid pioneer missionary, Adoniram Judson (1788–1850), wrote: “‘Nothing is impossible to industry,’ said one of the seven […]
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee” (Ps 119:11). My Bible teaches that if a man can bridle his tongue, he can bridle his whole body (see Jas 3:2). That was one of the first lessons I learned in my Christian life… My tongue began to be […]
The devil rarely tells blatant lies. Like the one in Eden, it was partly true. It’s just that he wants you to believe the wrong part. […]
“But Hannah answered and said, ‘…I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have…poured out my soul before the Lord’.…And Hannah prayed and said: ‘My heart rejoices in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation’” (1 Sam 1:15; 2:1). If Hannah’s prayer […]
“Pray for them…” (Mt 5:44). A survey prepared at Fuller Seminary was taken of 750 Muslims from 30 countries who had received the Lord Jesus. Here are the top five reasons that these Muslim considered Christ. 1. A true Christian lifestyle, a consistent testimony, the love Christians showed, plus respectful treatment of women. 2. The […]
When you’re heading downhill, as Ahaz was, it’s easy to pick up speed and very hard to stop. One thing you can say about king Ahaz. He was consistent—consistently bad from start to finish! And this in spite of the fact that his father Jotham “did what was right in the sight of the Lord” (2 Chron […]
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Witnesses aren’t prosecutors or judges. They simply tell what they know. For the Christian, it means sharing about our Savior and His way of salvation: agreeing with God about the problem—our personal sin—and agreeing about the answer—Christ’s death for us. Here’s Jesus’ most neglected command: “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to […]
“For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him” (1 Sam 1:27). D.L. Moody recounts the following: “A man came to me and said, ‘Mr. Moody, when the Mexican War began I wanted to enlist.…When I was going away, my mother took out a watch and […]